Sarah Palin leaves the Manhattan Federal Courthouse after the judge announced a ruling that Palin could not prove that The New York Times defamed her in a 2017 editorial that wrongly linked her political action committee to a mass shooting in Arizona before the Jury had finished deliberating on February 14, 2022. Photo: Ryland West/ALM
A Manhattan federal civil jury has found that The New York Times did not defame former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin with a 2017 editorial that falsely linked her political action committee to a mass shooting in Arizona.
The verdict, announced Tuesday afternoon, followed U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff’s announcement on Monday that Palin had not met the U.S. Supreme Court’s standard for “actual malice,” the high legal bar that public officials must meet in order to recover damages in defamation cases.
